it’s because they’re afraid to rattle those cages. Same reason why it’s always “companies want workers to return to the office, here’s why” and never “Here’s WHY employees don’t want to return to the office”. They don’t want to piss off the powers that be for fear of hurting their already very fragile media business.

“oh you’re knocking our company for stagnate wages? for forcing people to come back to the office? ok well we’re going to directly hurt your ad revenue by pulling our ads from your paper/site”

knew a guy that did this. keep your head down, blend in, don’t be loud, everything plugged into headphones, no parties, nothing just go, chill out, sleep. he did it for over a year and never got caught.

know someone who did this recently. lived in their “office” that they rented for like $300 a month for just over a year while they got back on their feet. It was easy. it was a pretty small building with a few offices in it, no onsite security, cleaners only cleaned the hallways and common area and only did it during the day. it was a building full of “start ups” so it wasn’t uncommon for people to be there late or even overnight so he just blended in and could come and go as he pleased. only issue naturally was showering but there was a goodlife across the street so he just got a membership to shower there.

I mean if you can find a similar space then I say why not? go for it. He said it was easier to rent that office space than it was to rent an apartment. didn’t need references, no credit check, no competition so you’re not gonna get out bid, literally just said that he’ll take it, paid $600, signed a lease, and that was it. moved in the same day.

but then you have the hurdle of actually being able to join a credit union. I remember a couple years ago I was trying to help one of my clients get a credit union account (who was homeless but working) and he couldn’t get it. don’t remember the specific reason but I do know we went across the street and was able to open a scotiabank account.

It was Merdian bank so don’t know how good they are. I figuerd the credit union would be easier to work with in his case since like you said there’s no minimum fees, I was wrong.

also need to keep cash around for poor people. when I was homeless 10 years ago if cash wasn’t a thing I would have been well and truly fucked.

You also need to further lower the barrier of entry for simply getting a bank account. Make it so, once again in Ontario at least, your OHIP card is a valid id to open an account. Because if you go cashless and you don’t have a bank account you’ll never get one. costs money to get a valid form of ID here to open one. Hell I know people who don’t even have bank accounts because they can’t afford it. They can’t afford the monthly fee. they either get paid in cash or have somenoe cash their paycheques for them.

My sister is an elementary school principal and she is absolutely infuriating. she’s smart don’t get me wrong, book smarts that is. Went to university twice, got her masters, she skipped 8th grade when she was a kid.

However when it comes to common sense/street smarts…oh boy. dumb as a pile of rocks. Took her god knows how many times to pass her driving exam. Written test? no problem, aced it the first try. the actual DRIVING portion? failed it god knows how many times to the point the instructor just couldn’t comprehend how someone who knew all the rules, everything, on the written test couldn’t transfer that to actually using it. Common sesne is a foreign concept to her. Like the most basic things that you and I do in everyday life boggle her mind.

To top it all off, she hates kids. I shit you not she’s been a teacher/principal for nearly two decades and cannot stand kids. Her husband wanted children but she said no, she doesn’t want kids - to quote her “I really can’t stand children”. It’s like saying I can’t stand pizza, it makes me sick, so I’m gonna go work at Pizza Pizza and make a god damn career out of it.

My point is the principal in this case is a douche and administration is no better so reading stories like this doesn’t surprise me at all. They really pick from the bottom of the barrel to fill those roles.

Needless to say my sister and I do not get along.

don’t know what you posted but if it’s anything like our mental health care I’m gonna say “not great.”

wake me up when there’s an article titled: “why so many Canadians have fled to other parts of The World” so remind me in like a year or less.

which is crazy when you compare the cost of Rent in Quebec to other cities in the country, they’re one of the cheapest. we’re fucked.

I volunteer for both a food bank and community centre/drop-in. I’d say the past year or so I’ve seen a lot more homeless seniors, especially women, then ever before. Hell I’ve just seen more “regular” people in general then ever before. Homelessness in this country is 100% no longer something regulated to the mentally ill or addicts it’s now affecting everyone. Majority of people I work with now you wouldn’t think were homeless if you walked by them no the street or saw them having a coffee in tim hortons. At first I was shocked like “you’re homeless? you don’t look it” but now it’s no surprise. You could have a clean cut person wearing clean and nice clothes looks like they work on king street come up to me and say their homeless and I wouldn’t bat an eye.

The problem is the system as it exists now and as done for decades isn’t built to deal with these people. It’s not meant for people who are elderly or families or people who are simply broke. None of the resources we have can help these people because they’ve always been tailored to the addicts and the mentally ill. Shelters aren’t going to help even if there were space available again because shelters are set up and staff trained to work with addicts and the mentally ill. I’ve had co-workers come up to me and say “I don’t know how to help this person or these people because none of the resources or programs we have will help them”.

We took a very narrow look at the homeless and instantly said that they’re homeless because they’re drug addicts or crazy. And that just simply isn’t the case anymore. The fact of the matter is, based on my experience, Addicts and the mentally ill are quickly becoming a minority within the homeless population. I know that will be difficult to swallow but it’s the truth. I work more with “regular” people now than I do with someone on drugs or someone that doesn’t know where they are.

We need to rethink and rework how we deal with the homeless population in this country. We need to ditch the thinking that they’re all addicts and finally accept that most are now just like you or me. Thus we need to start tailoring resources and programs to instead of focusing on rehab, mental health, and street health to focusing on housing, jobs, and food. Because I’m no longer being asked about safe injection sites or CAMH referrals now I’m being asked about Jobs and where to eat daily.

always has. If you’re not researching or willing to be a feed to some tech company then you’re not much good to that place.

“The beatings will continue until moral improves” Feels like we’re in a domestic abusive relationship with these politicians…all of them. The cons are morons without an original thought in their head, they looked south, got jealous and said “we want some of that”

the NDP lost their spine when Layton died and their current leader is more concerned about optics then doing anything of actual meaning.

And then you go the liberals who have managed to piss off most of the country, then laugh about it, then wave their hand at the rest of the shitshow parties in this country and say “really? them? haha good luck with that.”

we’re fucked.

and more and more people will become homeless. hell it’s already happening.

I was homeless years ago and thankfully got out of it. But when I was homeless, getting off the streets was an absolute cake walk compared to today. How much did it take me to save to do it? $1500 total. that’s it. that was working a part time job and saving enough for first and last. that $1500 included first and last AND money for clothes to interview/work as well as food. And that was only 10 years ago. It took me all of maybe, MAYBE, 2 months once I decided to get my shit together.

Now I volunteer for a food bank and community centre/drop-in and weekly, almost daily, you see new faces. And I’m not talking mentally ill or addict faces, I’m talking regular sane sober scared men, women, and children who have fallen with absolutely zero nets to save them. MOST work too. It’s the same stories over and over again. Landlord kept increasing the rent, Landlord decided to move in, Landlord decided to renovate in order to increase the rent for someone else, can’t afford food, can’t afford clothes, etc, etc, etc.

They all want help and we can only provide what we have which isn’t much at all because the Canadian Government sure as shit ain’t helping. The meals we provide the portions have gotten smaller simply because we don’t have enough to cook for everyone. We don’t have enough food to give out a few times a week cause the lineups will be around the block and we’re hardly getting any donations in cause no one can afford to donate. We’re running out of blankets, socks, hygiene stuff cause again no one can afford to donate that stuff. We’ve given up with shelter referrals cause they’re all full where over 50% of the clients living in shelters are refugees leaving Canadians to rough it outside. We’ve started handing out tents to people when we get them in. I cried the other day because I handed a child sized tent to a kid with his family and I had NEVER done that before. I’m used to dealing with the Homeless mentally ill and addicts. I’m used to telling them how to survive outside in the winter. I’m NOT used to telling a 7 year old boy how to set up a tent, how to layer his sleeping bags, and how to stay warm IF he and his family isn’t off the streets by this winter. It’s sick, It’s disgusting. It’s absolutely infuriating and if it doesn’t make your blood boil and demand change and demand it now then you’re dead inside.

I’ve emailed politicians left right and center. I’ve emailed Ford, Trudeau even Chow and countless upon countless MPPs and I’ve challenged them all, dared them, to stop by my community centre and look that 7 year old boy dead in the eyes and tell him WHY he can’t have his own bedroom, why he has to sleep outside, why the shelters are full, why his parents can’t afford to provide for him, why there’s no where affordable to live. these “leaders” are all cowards not a single one as responded and taken me up on my offer. They don’t care, none of them care.

Heads on pikes, then they’ll care.

has damaged the school’s reputation

yeah that was damaged well before this encampment but ok.

driven up administrative and operational costs for the university and depreciated the university’s property values.

Or “We’re the UofW, we’ve never cared about students or what they believe in…like never. IF they refuse to be fed to the grinder of a US tech company or refuse to be a research zombie then we couldn’t give two shits about them. We spend what little we can on facilities here and have done so for…well forever, I mean really have you ever been to Dana Porter Library? and we said the quiet thing out loud with property value cause…yeah. Fuck the students and fuck Waterloo and especially fuck those peasants living in Kitchener…just ew.”

I kinda wish the OSC thing didn’t go through. after the Greenbelt kerfuffle I would have loved to see what his “friends” would have done to ol’ Dougie.

isn’t this like the third time something like this as either happened or was suggest to someone? like “sorry we can’t help you, hey…have you thought about dying as an option?”

The one that pops to mind was that military veteran that was asked if she had considered taking MAID for some issue and thankfully she out right refused.

Either things like this are going to become more common due to our severe lack of funding for healthcare and mental healthcare OR they do away with MAID completely and then…people take matters into their own hands. Regardless it’s going to get worse. Wouldn’t surprise me if people start applying to MAID simply because they can’t afford rent. wouldn’t surprise me if people have already tried that.

or just straight up give it to their mafia buddies.

this and immigration, a few weeks ago announcing that Palestinians would be allowed to easily immigrate to Canada, the whole India thing, etc yeah and especially after lastnight Trudeau knows his days are numbered so he and the liberals are setting up their escape plan and leaving behind a bunch of booby traps for Pierre to unsuccessfully disarm THEN reclaim power.

Meanwhile the rest of Canada continues to suffer while these clowns circlejerk each other off in the house of commons.

that’s it, he’s done. The Liberals HAVE to ask Trudeau to step down as leader now, they literally have to. Even if the liberals had just squeaked by a win it would still put into question his leadership but now? he’s toast. I mean when you have NDP voters who would rather have a Con win than the liberals…oof yeah Trudeaus days are numbered.

Edit: don’t know why I’m being downvoted for speaking the truth and what pretty much everyone in the politicalsphere have said. He has to step down now, it’s facts. I’m by no means a conservative voter. I hate them, this is fucked, but make no mistake Trudeau is finished. it’s over folks. Get over it, liberals are done.

should be open and shut, the plate is clearly visible. So all you have to do is trace the plate back to the advertising company and see who hired these people to display the ads. both parties need to be arrested btw.

edit: Rebel Media did it: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rebel-news-owns-truck-with-islamophobic-messages-toronto-police-investigating/article_ce7a82ca-2f0d-11ef-8cb9-271ad1490865.html

to the surprise of, well, no one. even the guy at rebel media admitted to the crime on twitter. open and shut at this point.